The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-01
MRS. LOGAN's GRIEF.
Baltimore Ne,os.

baltimore NeOS.
One of the saddest things in connection with
the death of Gen. Logan is the grief of his widow
DR.. Newman, who has stood beside many death
beds said that in his life he had never witnessed
anything so intensely distressing at was not
hysterical grief; it eloquent, tender, beauti-
full, touching in the extreme. Everything she
said had deep, pathetic meaning 1t represen-
ted the true tragedy of life."
With a womans unselfshness she did not re-
member, and perhaps does not realize, how much
she had been to him. She can only recall how
good and kind and true he had been to her. And
vet it is conceded that without her love and en-
couragement his career must have been much less
successful than it was. He, we'll as Others, had
his dark hours when her cheer and comfort proved
priceless.
A bluff and rugged nature like Logan's, it
might be thought, would possess little sentiment
but beneath his stern and somewhat naughty ex
terror there was, as is not seldom seen, vein of
profound tenderness. He had the sensitiveness
of all proud spirits, and although he did not pub
licly vince under the wounds he sometimes re-
ceived, the pain was none the less acute-was, in
deed, the more so.
The General seems to have reflected his wifes
ambition, and but for her he might not have
fought the battle of political career so manfclly.
She is universally spoken OF as worthy place
among the famous women of America. Her
shrewdness, pluck, energy and hopefulness were
of Unreasonable value to him. Nevertheless,
only recently, little dreaming how soon she was
to meet with the greatest sorrow of her life, she
disclaimed, with the modesty of true womanhood,
any important share in the success of his career
She would only admit that she had relieved him
of some of the details of his many public duties.
She read his letters and wrote the replies to many
of them, and sought out authorities bearing upon
topics upon which he proposed to speak, and
copied extracts. Personal ambition she had none.
cit has always been my sole ambition to be q
good and useful wife and true mother" she said
in her frank little chat to one of the newspaper
correspondents short time ago. 81 have been
the companion of my husband, and 1 think this
is the sole ambition of the great of American
women, as it should be-"
That Logan should be kind and faithful to so
devoted and worthy wife was to be expected,
and in all the tributes which have been paid him
by friend and foe the good fortune and happiness
of his domestic life has been especially dwelt
upon. The private career of public men, particu-
larry in Washington, is not always of a character
fit for perfect disclosure to the world. In his
family relations, however, and in the conduct of
his pecuniary affairs the record of the dead Sena
tor never stained with the breath of suspicion
From every direction and from men of all
parties come messages of sympathy for the widow.
The blow that has fallen is of crushing effect, for
she evidently had no idea that such dreadful
sorrow was SO near. They had just bought their
new house and she was full of bright prospects
for the future, and there be doubt that she,
at least, dreaming of the most exalted fortune
for the one whose welfare was the absorbing
thought of her life. That vision has been, with
all other plans and hopes relating to him, shat
tered forever.
The General, it seems, died quite poor. That
something should be done for his widow is sug-
gested upon every side.